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Tokyo Game Show is one of those huge events in Japan that keeps attracting more and more visitors every year. This year's Tokyo Game Show saw almost 300,000 people (268,446) through the doors of Makuhari Messe over 4 days, breaking the previous re...

This year's 44th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump is revealing on Monday that the second season of the Assassination Classroom (Ansatsu Kyōshitsu) TV anime will premiere in Japan in January on Fuji TV and other channels.

POP continues their journey towards redemption as the challengers have been announced for Gyu-No Fest vol. 7 "Pride of Pinchike" (October 3, 2015), the idol event organized by Gyuzo (Tokyo Shock Boys, aka Tokyo Dengeki Network) to support his home...

After making their appearance at Taiwan for the infinite synthesis tour, fripSide returns to AFA Indonesia on the 26 September 2015. Introduction to fripSide fripSide has come a long way, formed back in 2002, the composer Satoshi Yaginuma and sing...

On September 23, Music Station will have a special episode titled Music Station Ultra Fes. This special is in celebration of Music Station's 30th anniversary. The show will start at noon and continue until 9:48 PM.

Saban Brands has been advertising a new "girls action" TV show in trade magazines under the title of Glitter Force, and the artwork used is from Smile PreCure! , a 2012 TV anime from Toei. Glitter Force is described as being a 40 episode series, w...

I arrived an hour early, planning to grab lunch before the screening, but by the time I got there the line was already snaking up to the street and down the block. There's no real point in going to see a cartoon idol movie if you're not going to a...

By Sato . September 23, 2015 . 10:06am This week's issue of Famitsu magazine has a big feature on Persona 5 and shares a look at some of the latest with a bunch of new screenshots. Here's a look at the latest on the upcoming RPG by Atlus.

With the ninth volume of the One-Punch Man manga released last month with a drama CD bundle, the first bundled bonus of its run, things are looking up for the tenth installment in an entirely expected way.

Atelier Sophie: Alchemist of the Mysterious Book, and we get a closer look at the protagonist Sophie and the friends that will join her adventure in the upcoming game. Atelier Sophie will release in Japan on November 19, 2015 for PlayStation 4, Pl...

Bandai Namco recently announced a tactical RPG for PlayStation Vita based on the dark fantasy manga series Seraph of the End. The game's first trailer shows us a look at how it plays. Seraph of the End: Beginning of Fate will release in Japan on D...

This burger has become infamous since Burger King's fifth anniversary and the Black Burger's debut. The Japanese version is made with buns blackened with onion, black pepper, cheese blackened with bamboo charcoal and garlic sauce with squid ink.

It's been about two and a half years since the initial announcement that Berserk - the 36-plus volume manga series about a wandering swordsman named Guts - would be the subject of an ambitious adaptation by Studio 4°C.

Featured Posts Gakkou Gurashi! - 11 Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Things are looking grimmer and grimmer for our four heroines as Yuuri can't bring herself to kill Kurumi, Miki is trapped on the lower floors and zombies have subsequently kn...

There's a unique problem that the producers of anime-to-live-action adaptations face. Even if the casting director can gather a group of actors that look just like the source material's human characters, what do you do about the non-human characters?

Shortly after the final performance of "The Sound of Tiger & Bunny" concert series in Yokohama on September 20, 2015, the official Tiger & Bunny Twitter account posted a Tweet that has lead some fans to speculate that more Tiger & Bunny animation ...

After wrapping up Soul Eater in August 2013 and Soul Eater Not! in November 2014, Atsushi Ōkubo is back with his new Enen no Shouboutai (Fire Brigade of Flames), launching in September 23rd's Weekly Shonen Magazine's 2015 issue 43 from Kodansha.

Following similar offers for select other major video game releases in recent month, Activision and Sony Computer Entertainment have confirmed that a special PlayStation 4 unit is going to be released as a Limited Edition for Call of Duty: Black O...

A couple of characters from spin-offs and extensions to popular franchises are set to be featured in Medicom Toy's line of nearly foot-tall Real Action Heroes premium figures. Due in June 2016, the white-clad Saber Bride from the Fate/EXTRA CCC RP...

Earlier this year, Aki Toyosaki has started a new job as a weather girl for the TV Tokyo morning news show, Charge 730! , which airs in Japan every weekday morning at 7:30 a. m. Japan time. However, after six months in the gig, the program's offic...

By Sato . September 23, 2015 . 9:40pm Sega's latest trailer for their upcoming fighter Blade Arcus from Shining EX shows off some of the characters from its Shining series, in addition to its art gallery that features a bunch of illustrations of i...

The legendary animator and director, Hayao Miyazaki is not quite retired, as he will be making a new 3DCG animated short film. This is, in fact, the first time the Oscar-winning director will be working on 3D animation.

Like the changing of the leaves the Fall anime season brings a change in source materials, with the latest crop of shows full of light novel adaptations and anime originals. In grand Glorio Blog tradition, I'm in charge of the second part, which f...

Sadly, Tokyo Game Show 2015 is now over, but the buzz created by the event is still tingling in our bellies and in our hearts! Kind of like indigestion, but awesome. We saw and tried a lot of cool stuff, but we couldn't catch it all, unfortunately.

During the final episode of the anime adaptation of Okayado's Monster Musume (Everyday Life with Monster Girls) manga, there is a small sign in the episode that mentions that a second season of the anime has been confirmed.

It's Open Castle Day, when the public is allowed into a corner of the castle, and Shirayuki and the others join in the festivities. The Review Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers) It's Open Castle day in th...

Hello everyone, Kahotan here! (@gsc_kahotan) When it comes to ramen, I like tonkotsu ramen the best! I also prefer thin but hard noodles the best! Anyway, today I'm going to be taking a look at. . . From the popular anime series 'LoveLive!

We've been waiting on the edge of our seats over here at OUSA HQ for any word on the new Godzilla film, so we were thrilled this morning to get word of the film's title - which, as it turns out, is literally New Godzilla.

Girl Friend Beta: A Summer Spent with You. The latest trailer shares a look at some of the various events, along with dating and love confession scenes. The game takes place at the Kiyoshi Sakura Academy, where you'll get to spend time with the gi...

My Love Story took last week off presumably because they needed extra time to animate all the sparkles, but we're back with not only the finale to our two-parter, but to the show itself. Confessions will be made!